Philips reached out and adjusted the viewing controls, called the window level and window width. “My God,” he said after a minute. “You know what we’re looking at? Air! There’s no brain. It’s gone!

Family life could never be made to run smoothly. At least in the lab the variables had a comforting predictability and problems lent themselves to the scientific method.

Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It’s the question of precedent: today the United States doesn’t like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

I can’t accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

The worst thing about disease is the uncertainty. Humans are capable of adapting to anything as long as they know. It’s the hopeless floundering that drives people crazy.

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish.

Chicken masala is now Britain’s true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck!

Anyone on the streets knows we were not elected because Tony Blair was popular this time around,

I want to spell out to the people of Britain why our forces are bravely risking their lives destroying Saddam's threat to humanity. Our objective is to achieve by military action the disarmament Saddam will not allow the UN inspectors to carry out on the ground.